Our ultrasound tech at the 28 week appointment Tuesday was awesome. He’d read our chart, knew the history, took time to point out all the parts & heartbeats & prove to us they’re looking great. That means so much & is really appreciated. The tech not only took the growth scan measurements of the babies, but said it’s fun to play with 4D photos too.
Baby A is most definitely still a boy {although I won’t show that photo} & was guesstimated to now weigh 2.9 lbs & at 45% on the singleton pregnancy growth chart for 28 weeks. Baby A is no longer head down~ he’s flipped to butt down with his head up along my right side next to hers. The thing in front of his lower face is the umbilical cord. The tech said it’s not wrapped around his neck but more like he was just playing with it at the time.
Baby C was guesstimated to weigh 3 pounds & is at 55% on the growth chart. She’s still transverse with her head on my right up by my ribs & bootie & feet on my left side. She faces down most of the time & the tech had to jiggle the wand over her to get her photo. She had her left arm across her face but then moved it to under her right ear when he snapped this photo {which is funny because that’s how I sleep!}. The thing on the left side of her photo is his head. That’s how close they are now.
Both babies have continued to measure bigger than their gestational age which impressed the tech & MFM we saw. Our main doctor ended up not being there, so we didn’t do any of the me checks nor did we have the discussion my doctor mentioned we’d have. Because of this, we now have another appointment scheduled for next Thursday.
We don’t call them by name yet {I tend to say “he” & “she”}. But “meet” Zachary Layne {aka Zach aka Z aka baby A} and Lucy Elizabeth {aka Lucy aka L aka baby C}. Lucy’s name has been picked for years {way before it was ‘popular’} & is made up of family names from both sides. Lucy was my maternal grandmother who past away Christmas ’10’s name & Elizabeth is for both my paternal grandmother & my mother-in-law. My sister-in-law & several friends named Elizabeth I guess can also claim influence on her middle name!
Zach’s name isn’t based on family or long history. I wanted shorter names since I knew we’d be saying multiple names! After my husband turning down my long list of boy names, I asked him for a name & loved Zachary as soon as he said it. Weeks later, I said Lane as a middle name after reading it in a baby name book. Jason agreed as long as we could spell it with a Y which I too liked. So there you go, our babies have names to go along with their cute faces!
32 replies on “Babies Appointment & Names”
Your family is beautiful! And I love the names – especially Lucy Elizabeth (Elizabeth is on our short list 😉
XOXO
Thanks!!
YAY for good ultrasounds! And I love love love the names. They will be so easy to yell together 🙂
Yes, good ultrasounds are the best. & I was thinking just that when we chose short first names!
Hello babies!!!
I LOVE the names, Suz.
🙂 Thanks!
I am so glad to hear the babes are doing so well. Their names are beautiful! I love them.
Thank you; I really appreciate it.
Cuteeeeeeeeeee! CAN’T WAIT!!!!
Haha! Thanks B!
Those names are beautiful!
Thank you!
Love those names!!!
Thanks!
hooray for healthy babies! adorable names!!
Absolutely! Thanks big!
I love BOTH those names and think they are perfect for your beautiful babies!
Thank you Suzanne!
so happy & excited for you – love the names! They go really well together, too. 🙂
That’s what we thought. Thank you!
I LOVE their names! Cute, meaningful, classic names that even go well together. Zach & Lucy. <3
Glad you got to see them, get some good pictures, and of course that they're doing great!
Yes, a great doctor’s visit is awesome & thank you!
LOVE!!!
And they DO go so well together! Beautiful pictures.
Thanks! I was so glad we got some good photos this time. Last couple ultrasounds they were moving so much the photos were blurry. 😛
Very nice! They are growing great 🙂 My daughter was my twin A but they were breech/transverse in the same orientation yours are. I joked that they wanted to be head to head so they could talk in utero! Love the name too. My husband’s nephew is named Layne. Nice strong name 🙂 So exciting that you’re getting closer. In a few short months we’ll be seeing pictures of them for real!!!
Yay for hearing of another boy named Layne. & that yours were situationed like mine ~ love the thought of them chatting in the belly. 🙂
Yes, they’ll be lots more baby photos to come soon!!
Zach and Lucy. Love the names, and love those babies!
It’s so awesome you can *see* them!! Lucy and Zach sound like a fun duo 🙂 Beautiful!
I know! It’ll be cool to see how much they really look like all these ultrasound photos we have. Thanks Sarah!
Beautiful babies and beautiful names!
Aww, thank you!
Those are great names!